Thursday, August 21, 2014

This post is a placeholder for people to add comments for any films that they notice as sold out (i.e. off sale) when completing the online ticketing process for My Choice packages for TIFF 2014. Feel free to post a comment for anything you see as sold out when you log in to make your picks to help others out.Note that films may come off sale if people release them before checking out because they changed their mind or failed to complete the check out process. Also, even though a screening sold out during the My Choice selection process, it may become available again when individual tickets go on sale.

As mentioned previously, no screenings of Maggie are listed on the selection site at all. After making a call to the TIFF Bell Lightbox, the rep confirmed that all screenings of Maggie are off-sale. He seemed pretty surprised, too.

Although I was not interested in the premium showings of the films already listed off sale, I would not be a happy Principal and up member if I was faced with all those films being unavailable so early on. I wonder if the single ticket sales are the problem, or if these films have that many seats reserved for industry members.

those are ON SALE exclusively to VISA cardholders. sorry for confusion. probably not the right place to psot this, but i can't exactly make a new post on someone else's blog. plus this seems liek the place where anxious TIFF-goes are most likely to look. :)

Damn! St. Vincet regular screening is already gone! They really need to have more than two screenings of this! I get to select tomorrow at 10:30AM will let people know of anything I see off sale then! good luck!

What is the difference between premium screening for the judge at RTH and princess of yales on Thursday night? I was only able to have tickets at princess of yales, but I am wondering if it's really a PREMIUM screening? Are the movies stars gonna be there too?

The last-minute schedule change of Tales of the Grim Sleeper is explained by its presence on the list of films at Telluride. TIFF's printed Official Film Schedule shows screenings on Sept 6, 7, and 14 but the official web site (as noted in a comment above) gives revised screenings of this film on Sept 10, 11, and 14. Obviously this is to comply with TIFF's new policy of not showing a film in the first four days unless it is (at least) a North American Premiere. It's telling that the printed TIFF programme book lists Tales of the Grim Sleeper as a World Premiere but tiff.net shows it as an "International Premiere". Sorry for going slightly off-topic.

TIFF overbooks for two world premieres, including Bill Murray’s St. Vincenthttp://www.thestar.com/entertainment/tiff/2014/08/30/tiff_overbooks_for_two_world_premieres_including_bill_murrays_st_vincent.html

@Joshua Aube, that policy was discussed on this blog last year. As I recall, TIFF confirmed that some additional seats to some films would be released on the first day of single-ticket sales, that had been off sale to packageholders.

Q & As depend on which venue you are at and whether or not it is a first screening. Generally, if you are at a first screening anywhere but Roy Thomson Hall and the Elgin, there will be a Q and A. On occasion there have been Q & As at the Elgin.

You may have the director or some actors show up to a second screening, but usually those are when movies are smaller and the second screening if scheduled not long after the first one. The second weekend of TIFF has very few Q & As in my experience.

I ended up caught in that St Vincent overbooking, but I was able to make a quick switch prior to single tickets day and so I have to say that TIFF handled it well based on the situation. I even ended up releasing a Nightcrawler ticket in a showing that was listed off sale so someone else will benefit too.